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EXCLUSIVE: Jim Hecht, the Ice Age: The Meltdown scribe who recently signed on to write The Big Cigar (about Bert Schneider’s attempt to smuggle Black Panthers leader Huey Newton to Cuba by faking a movie) has signed on to rewrite The Grigsbys Go Broke for Paramount and producers Joe Roth and Palak Patel at Revolution. He’s stepping into hallowed ground here, because this was one of the last scripts written by the late great writer-director John Hughes, with whom Roth made Home Alone. Hecht is repped by UTA and The Gotham Group.
The script is about a family whose greed takes them from a contented life to move to Mulletville, selling all their possessions to do it. Stripped of their wealth, they have to start all over.
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Great, the hack who wrote an Ice Age sequel is going to piss on the grave of John Hughes.
WORD.
Kieran I bet you don’t work much.
Go Jimmy Go!
Actually, Kieran works plenty and is qual. As for rolling out the bones of a John Hughes developed script and throwing a John Hecht dress on it in the hopes that it will dance enough to draw a profit, it’s kinda like necrophilia on camera, which somehow brings to mind Madonna’s last tour. They might as well perform a seance before shooting to give Ben Hecht a shot at touching up the script.
BIG CIGAR reads like ARGO but far less dramatic.
Is this guy of the same lineage as the late great Ben Hecht by any chance?
jim is awesome!
The comments here can so very often be cruel as to make people hope they are not written about on this site. I am willing to bet an overwhelming majority of those that show up, spew their shit, crap all over the subjects, and slink away to the desk or coffee machine with which they make a living. So here’s a challenge to you all—next time you read a story here and are ready to fire off a comment—stop, think, and say to yourself, “am I just being mean or am I truly adding something interesting to the discourse?” If it’s the former, show some class and DON’T comment. Let’s try and keep these comment pages sophisticated (or at least as sophisticated as a show business comment board can be).
Well said, The Right Coast!
Way to go Jim. A great talent and a great guy. Suck it haters.